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Meanings of 'schedule'
Phil teaches meanings of 'schedule'.
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Phil
Let’s learn schedule. It’s a verb and a noun, and you can say it as /ˈskedʒ.uːl/ or /ˈʃedʒ.uːl/. As a noun, it can be a plan or a list, of when things happen.
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According to the schedule, we start at 9:00 tomorrow.
Phil
Especially in American English, a schedule can tell you when planes, trains and buses are planned to arrive at and depart from different places.
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The flight schedule says that we should be leaving at 10:15.
Phil
As a verb, schedule means to plan to for something to happen at a certain time. It’s often used in the passive to talk about when things will or should happen.
Example
The meeting was scheduled for 9:30, but everyone was late.
Phil
So /ˈskedʒ.uːl/ or /ˈʃedʒ.uːl/, is usually about time – it’s when things are planned to happen. Make sure that practising English is on your schedule.
Schedule
Schedule as a noun can be a plan or list of when things happen.
- According to the schedule we start at 9 tomorrow.
A schedule can tell when planes, trains and buses are planned to arrive at and depart from different places.
- The flight schedule says that we should be leaving at 1015.
As a verb, schedule means to plan to for something to happen at a certain time. It’s often used in the passive to talk about when things will or should happen.
- The meeting was scheduled for 9:30, but everyone was late.
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